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Of course there’ll be an Xbox One successor console

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I don’t know about you guys, but a great many things worry me and I just don’t know if I can follow Bobby McFerrin’s advice. While I am fully convinced that we’ll all be doomed when the Andromeda galaxy collides with our Milky Way clusters of solar systems in a few billion years, one thing that doesn’t really concern me are Microsoft’s plans for the Xbox division.

With the Xbox One getting deeper into the Windows 10 bed, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the road is drawing to a close for the console division over at Microsoft. But you’d be wrong. Real wrong, as Xboss Phil Spencer was on hand to explain that the Xbox will be alive and kicking for at least another generation.

“I love that console experience,” Spencer said to The Verge.

It’s obviously the core of what Xbox is about, and Xbox One is our most important gaming device inside the company. There’s no doubt about that.

We also know there are millions and millions of gamers who access Microsoft [in other ways,] whether it’s Windows, their phone, Skype — it could be many different things every day. As head of gaming inside of Microsoft, I think about how we make sure that all of those customers feel as supported and engaged as the Xbox fans do who own a game console.

Right now, Xbox One games are playable on any PC that is running Windows 10, a move that was designed to widen the demographics. At the same time, Microsoft is looking to make that content “relevant across as many of its platforms as possible,” while also remaining  “100% committed” to Xbox users.

“I fully expect that you’ll see another console from us,” Spencer said.

Our best customers are Xbox console customers, and I want to keep those people engaged both on the Xbox One and anything we might do in the future. I don’t want to dilute what the Xbox console customer feels. I want to expand what we’re able to do for more customers.

After two years, I’m liking the Xbox One brand a whole lot more. Sure, the console hardware may not be perfect, but the current drive to fund and develop more first-party titles has resulted in a much stronger library for Xbox. One that hasn’t been seen in many a year on the Microsoft black boxes. And now I can rest easy, knowing that I need to start saving up several million Rands to afford the next Xbox console.

Wait, crap…

Last Updated: December 11, 2015

23 Comments

  1. XBOXTWO

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    • HvR

      December 11, 2015 at 12:28

      They are just going to call it “Number TWO”
      .

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      • The Grand Admiral Chief

        December 11, 2015 at 12:28

        WHO….DOES NUMBER TWO……WORK FOR?

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        • WitWolfy

          December 11, 2015 at 12:41

          Funny shit.

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    • Captain JJ 4x

      December 11, 2015 at 12:30

      It being MS it’s silly to assume that they’ll follow with two after one.
      It’s more likely to be Xbox 17 or something, just to mess with people. 😉

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      • The Grand Admiral Chief

        December 11, 2015 at 12:33

        The Z-Boz

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      • VampyreSquirrel

        December 11, 2015 at 12:34

        Well Windows 10 is technically Windows 13…

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  2. VampyreSquirrel

    December 11, 2015 at 12:07

    The XTWO!

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    • The Grand Admiral Chief

      December 11, 2015 at 12:16

      Ooooooh, I like this!

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  3. Captain JJ 4x

    December 11, 2015 at 12:14

    Xbox One games can be played on a pc that runs Win10?!!

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    • VampyreSquirrel

      December 11, 2015 at 12:31

      But not Xbox Two games…

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      • Captain JJ 4x

        December 11, 2015 at 12:49

        I think they mean just the streaming thing though.
        So that’s a bit misleading. I almost thought I was going to be able to play Forza. Boo

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        • VampyreSquirrel

          December 11, 2015 at 12:54

          Tomb Raider on your PC before it was cool 😛

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          • Captain JJ 4x

            December 11, 2015 at 12:59

            Haha

          • Captain JJ 4x

            December 11, 2015 at 13:09

            😀

  4. The Grand Admiral Chief

    December 11, 2015 at 12:16

    I’m buying gold instead of shares. I’ll bury my gold, better return on investment

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    • Captain JJ 4x

      December 11, 2015 at 12:20

      Gold has always been the only investment you could count on.

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      • The Grand Admiral Chief

        December 11, 2015 at 12:22

        Indeed, I still hope from time to time when in the garden that oom Paul left a cache of Kruger Rands buried there….

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  5. HvR

    December 11, 2015 at 12:26

    You can play games on Skype?

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    • VampyreSquirrel

      December 11, 2015 at 12:36

      Competitive dual streaming system that saves your game into the cloud so it can be hacked off their system, modified, and turned into a really bad porno?

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    • WitWolfy

      December 11, 2015 at 12:43

      You can always play I’ll show you mine if you show me yours?

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  6. ElFakio

    December 11, 2015 at 13:18

    It should be Xbone-r

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  7. Pieter Kruger

    December 11, 2015 at 15:45

    At the pace technology is moving forward it could be much sooner(just make Xbox One games BC right from the start) ????

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